George F Pennington Original Vintage Watercolour Painting St Ives Mending Nets

Type of artwork: An Original Vintage Watercolour Painting

Artist and Signature: Unsigned but purchased as part of a collection by....

George Farquhar PENNINGTON

He sometimes signed his work with a monogram. Born in Castleford, Yorkshire, the son of a Wesleyan minister, he trained with a firm of architects at Leeds before setting up on his own. He was a successful architect before he retired to take up painting, unsurprisingly he was particularly attracted by interesting buildings and old bridges, the design of Wesleyan chapels being one of his specialities. In 1935, after retirement and determined to learn to paint, he and his wife Hilda travelled through several Mediterranean countries.

In 1939 they settled in Carbis Bay, Pennington studying at John Leonard Fuller's St Ives School of Painting. He put on exhibitions in St Ives in the following years, featuring Sicily and the fruits of a five month sketching tour of Southern Spain and Morocco. His oils, particularly of St Ives street scenes, show the influence of John Anthony PARK. Before the Second World War, he was a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists and a candidate for their hanging committee afterwards. On the death of his wife in 1957 he moved to Chichester, joining local societies but still exhibiting with STISA until 1959.

An Historical St Ives Harbour Scene of a Fisherman Mending Nets

Approximate age of artwork: Circa late 1930's to 1940's

Is the artwork Framed or Mounted: Mounted and ready to frame

Condition Report: Some light marks and small tear around the peripheral, fair condition overall, please see photos.

Size of artwork 40 x 30 cm (mount aperture size 26 x 18 cm)

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